Of all the remarkable features of Coming Out of the Black Country, perhaps the most striking is the fact that this autobiography is penned by a 91-year-old former priest. Stanley Underhill has thus had a lifetime to reflect on his own ­spiritual, religious and emotional journey. We are the lucky recipients of his thoughtful and poignant conclusions about who, ­ultimately, he is, and in particular his lifelong struggle to accept himself and his ­homo­sexuality.